Signal Boost: Re: Good Omens Fandom Tag Decision (AO3)

[cimorene]

fail_fandomanon posted: FFA DW Post 1115

Nope, I think the problem is that if they exclude the book tag, it will also now filter out every show fic tagged with "All media types", because the all media tag is synned to the book tag.

And as stated elsewhere, a lot of people seem to be assuming that the "Good Omens - NG & TP" tag is a top-level tag.

There are 3633 Works in Good Omens (TV)
2564 are also tagged with Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett because no one actually seems to know that said tag is the book tag.

So basically you end up filtering out 70% of the fic.

Thanks to aethel pointing it out in a comment thread on Ithiliana's meta roundup post, this morning I learned that the fandom tag I'd been using to browse Good Omens which I thought was the parent tag to include both book and tv fandoms, "Good Omens - All Media Types", actually... isn't. The parent tag, that is.

There isn't a parent tag currently that includes both but instead "All Media Types" has been made into simply a synonym of the "Good Omens - Gaiman & Pratchett" tag (nominally the book tag, but it doesn't have the word 'book' in it so is being used freely by new fans too), so anybody who has only tagged their fandom as "Good Omens (TV)" wouldn't show up there, and furthermore if you ticked 'exclude crossovers' (as I usually do to eliminate the all-too-common Supernatural crossovers), it will filter out everything that's got both the show tag and the Gaiman & Pratchett/All Media Types tag.

For me this means I need to include crossovers in my search, and though there isn't a meta tag, I usually browse by pairing anyway, and the pairing tags will still include all the fandom tags.

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[cimorene]

Oh, no, of course, but it's hardly surprising that it confuses a good chunk of users.